Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
Despite a petition signed by 300 "East Side Mothers," urging the trial judge to "give this mother back to her child," the court sided with Gloria's aunt. Under her care Gloria did in time grow up and did indeed marry. At the age of 17, a dark-eyed beauty with a sulky mouth in the Katharine Hepburn style, she swept down the aisle of a Santa Barbara church on the arm of an obscure, two-fisted, once-divorced actor's agent and became...
...starred Ginger with Britain's Trevor Howard, but it lacked the pathos of either the 1936 Broadway original (starring Noel Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence) or the movie version, Brief Encounter. But in the third number, Shadow Play, Ginger was romantically believable in the touching dream sequence. Gloria Vanderbilt posed beautifully in the small part of Ginger's rival...
...methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages and I won't stay here!" With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite at the Hotel Gloria. Ten minutes after her arrival, the manager, urgently summoned by protesting guests to Suite 901, was greeted with a flying glass of whisky and a frenzied Ava smashing everything in sight. Ordered to leave, Ava soon turned up at another hotel, next day played hostess to the Brazilian press. Said...
Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...